The Iconic "Nuke/Tree" Project
UPDATE: 09/06/2016
Hello -I have created a version of The Official Iconic "Nuke/Tree" Poster Image that is FREE from Getty Lawyers and now…FREE for you to download, crop, remix, share and proliferate around the WORLD!
PLEASE CREDIT: The Iconic "Nuke/Tree" (T.I.N.T.) Project © 2017 José Roberto Chicas
If you have used this image in the past, please replace your image with this version. And please remember to support The Project that is making this FREE version for use around the World.
WHAT IS THE ICONIC "NUKE/TREE" (T.I.N.T) PROJECT?
Founded by José Roberto Chicas in 2016, The Iconic "Nke/Tree" (T.I.N.T.) Project is named after the first poster project José worked on in 2005 when he first joined Avenging Angels Inc., a political and advocacy advertising agency working exclusively for progressive causes founded by legendary advertising industry titan, the late great Gene Case. Over the past 10 years, T.I.N.T. has steadily come to be reproduced and recognized worldwide and continues to grow organically, blossoming into the ubiquitous visual that is alive and very much relevant today.
ABOUT THE T.I.N.T. POSTER IMAGE
The T.I.N.T. poster image, seemingly a simple photographic juxtaposition, succeeds in capturing the archetypal concept of Universal Duality in a novel way for our time. Its timeless appeal lies in its ability to represent many different things to different people around the world. Some obvious examples of what it has represented are: Destruction/Creation, Darkness/Light, and its originally intended War/Peace message. Today, we possess the omnipotent power to influence how and even when the Human Race will end. This fact alone can seem incredibly frightening and disheartening, while at the same time, liberating and empowering. Today, humanity as a whole, stands at a point in the road where the path splits. However lonely and frightening this situation might appear, both to our private and collective selves, WE DO NOT have to travel down the darker path. We can imagine ourselves into the future and look back at ourselves standing at the point where we still had the power to choose. Our godlike power over the forces of the universe demands that we make the right ethical choice. Today, more than ever, we must choose Creation over Destruction, Light over Darkness and, ALWAYS, Peace over War.
ABOUT JOSÉ: CREATOR OF THE ICONIC 2005 "NUKE/TREE" NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION POSTER
José Roberto Chicas was born in El Salvador in 1980 at the beginning of its civil war. When he was 6 years old, he and his two sisters immigrated to the United States to reunite with their parents. He grew up in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, where he attended public elementary school. In 1996, when he was in the 8th grade, José was accepted to Saint Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City, New Jersey, on a partial scholarship. For financial reasons José went on to attend and graduate from Cliffside Park High School in 1999. He was accepted to The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City in 2000. On February 17, 2004, José's apartment building in New Jersey burned to the ground along with both the Advertising & Graphic Design portfolios he had put together while in college. José managed to reassemble his artwork and to graduate from SVA with a BFA in Advertising and Graphic Design in May 2004. In the fall of that year, he began an internship with the advertising agency BBDO Worldwide. In the spring of 2005, José joined the progressive ad agency Avenging Angels Inc. and worked there until the end of 2010. In 2011, he went on to join a longtime client of Avenging Angels, The Nation Magazine, in the role of Production Coordinator, Designer, and Contributor. In 2013, José relocated to Dallas, Texas, where he is currently an Independent Artist.
WHAT ARE T.I.N.T. PROJECT'S GOALS?
The T.I.N.T. Project has set as its primary goal the reproducing, propagating, and sharing of the T.I.N.T. poster image and its story along with its modern universal message of hope for global peace by continuing to be available for use by members of the Anti-Nuclear, Anti-War, and Peace Movements in the United States and abroad on a Donation Basis. José is also personally committed to continuing his career as an Artist by depending less on computer generated graphic design and incorporating more traditional studio techniques in his work.
A FEW WORDS FROM A SPONSOR OF THE ORIGINAL "NO NUKES! NO WARS!" POSTER
"At the start of May 2005, Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference at United Nations headquarters, United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), through its UFPJ-Disarm Working Group, partnered with Abolition2000, a network of over 2000 organizations in more than 90 countries working for a global treaty to eliminate Nuclear weapons. Together, we organized the largest nuclear disarmament demonstrations in New York City since the 1980s. In 2005 we marched under the banner, “No Nukes! No Wars!” side by side one of the greatest, transformative, and beautiful visuals we have ever seen in the Peace Movement. In 2010 we marched “For a Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World.” We believe that Nuclear disarmament should serve as the leading edge of a global trend towards demilitarization and redirection of resources to meet human needs and protect the environment." –Alice Slater, Nonprofit Organization Management Professional, Attorney
WHERE THE T.I.N.T. POSTER IMAGE HAS BEEN SEEN AND USED
T.I.N.T. poster image has served in illustrating newspaper and magazine articles and has appeared on the cover of magazines and periodicals both in the US and Europe. It has provided visual energy in support of a leading NGO Committee on Disarmament as well as for an Environmental and Energy Policy Institutes' print collateral distributed at a UN Conference. It has lent its creative support to Nuclear Awareness and Education Projects as well as Faith-based statements on nuclear war. Today, it continues to be utilized by members of the Anti-Nuclear, Anti-War, and Peace Movements in the United States and abroad.
WHERE THE T.I.N.T. POSTER HAS BEEN REPRODUCED AND RECOGNIZED AROUND THE WORLD
2005: Official Poster for United for Peace and Justice and Abolition2000 in solidarity with 40,000+ demonstrators on the eve of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) 2005 Review Conference at UN headquarters in New York City, 60 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki–the largest anti-nuclear rally in the U.S. in several decades.
2007: NO NUKES! NO WARS! May 1, 2005, POSTER (NYC) and “SEEDS OF CHANGE: NO NUKES NO NUKES! NO WARS!” August, 6, 2005 (Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, CA) POSTERS included in Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) Permanent Collection
2008: Among one of 15 Posters by artists Pablo Picasso, Grapus, Jean Effel and others, included in Le Movement de la Paix's "60 Years of Action for Peace in 15 Historic Posters" Collection
2016: Appeared as full-page poster in FALTER (Butterfly) a weekly news magazine published in Vienna, Austria: Artikel: "Die abgesagte Apokalypse," von Kirstin Breitenfeuer | aus FALTER 15/16
HELP THE T.I.N.T. PROJECT BRANCH OUT
If you are inspired by the T.I.N.T. Poster Image and its Story, along with its Universal message of Global Peace, please share this campaign with your colleagues, family, friends, and like-minded individuals.
MAKE THE ICONIC "NUKE/TREE" POSTER IMAGE PART OF YOUR NEXT CAMPAIGN/PROJECT
The T.I.N.T. poster image will continue to be provided for use by members of the Anti-Nuclear, Anti-War, and Peace Movements in the United States and abroad on a Donation Basis. If you are an individual, group, or organization and would like to use the T.I.N.T. poster image in your next campaign or project, please contact José at IconicNukeTree[AT]gmail.com.
SHOP FOR T.I.N.T. PROJECT STUFF :
José has recently teamed up with Zazzle.com, an online marketplace in offering The Iconic "Nuke/Tree" Design on T-Shirts, Posters, Buttons, Key Chains, Tote Bags, Coffee Mugs…and Much More! José earns a fixed 33.3% Royalty on all products and merchandise sold.
T.I.N.T. STORE: http://www.Zazzle.com/The_Iconic_Nuke_Tree/Collections
Thank you for your time and support.
Sincerely,
JOSÉ R. CHICAS
Designer & Founder, The Iconic "Nuke/Tree" Project
PORTFOLIO & NEW WORK:
http://Jose-R-Chicas.WixSite.com/Work
EMAIL: [email redacted]
CONNECT:
LinkedIn: https://www.Linkedin.com/in/JoseChicas
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